Abstract

LOPES, Pedro. Disability as a Category from the Global South: Initial Approximations with South Africa. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.3, e66923.  Epub Nov 01, 2019. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n366923.

This article offers initial approximations to the issue of disability in South Africa, based on reflections about the disability grant - a benefit for people with disabilities who cannot work. The text is a result of interactions with university researchers in Cape Town and surroundings in 2018. South African production about disability stands out on the international scene because of the significant history of activism and of research and policy elaboration. Our access to this tradition in Brazil is still limited, but it offers theoretical references and points of ethnographic comparison that help us to think about disability from the Global South through axes that may be more dense than the affirmation of a cycle of coproduction between disability and poverty, noting its constitutive articulations with racial, spatial and political dynamics.

Keywords : Disability; Social Markers of Difference; South Africa; Global South.

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